Summary: Maximizing Lifetime in an Energy Constrained
Wireless Sensor Array Using Team Optimization
of Cooperating Systems
Robert J. Marks II, Arindam K. Das, Mohamed El-Sharkawi
Department of Electrical Engineering
Box 352500, University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Payman Arabshahi, Andrew Gray
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 238-343
Pasadena, CA 91109
Abstract - For omnidirectional wireless broadcast,
if a node has sufficient power to broadcast to another
node, it also has the ability to broadcast to all closer
nodes. This is the wireless advantage. For the broad-
cast problem, one node (the source) is required to
communicate to all other nodes, by a single trans-
mission to the farthest node or using intermediate
hop nodes. For a given node constellation, there ex-
ist many wireless connection trees to do this. For